MELNICHUK I. A. FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN POLITICAL ELITE (IX ‒ THE MIDDLE OF THE XVII CENTURY.) / I. A. MELNCHUK. – ZHITOMIR: PUBLISHERS «RUTA», 2014. ‒ 388 P.

Abstract

In his review monograph analyzes the formation and development of the Ukrainian political elite outlined period. The focus of the monograph is directed to a generalized role of the Ukrainian political elite in the state, social and economic transformations in Ukrainian society from the beginning Starokyivskaya state – to the middle of the seventeenth century. The basic functions and defining features of government institutions Middle Ages, Lithuanian-Russian period and analyzes the peculiarities of the Cossack elite at the first stage interest.